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FallenJellyDoughnut

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RebellionXXI said:
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RebellionXXI said:
EDIT 2: Almost forgot.

I've never been there myself, but my friends have told me stories about a tunnel near where I live. When I ask them for details, they refuse to talk about it, but from what I hear you can go down the tunnel with a flashlight and fresh batteries and when you get down into the darkness a ways you'll start to hear voices. Suddenly, your batteries will die, all your electronics will stop working and you'll be left in total darkness. That's as far as they ever got...
How about a glowstick?
They didn't try that, to my knowledge, but it is a good idea.

Maybe if I ever convince them to take me there, I'll bring along some glow sticks and see what happens. Although if my flashlight batteries do die I'll probably be too freaked out to stay in there for long.
Fuck that shit, I would send a hamster with a camera strapped to it down there.
 

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S.R.S. said:
Go to ED and search creepy pasta.

I got about two thirds of the way through before it happened. That made me take a sharp breath. I kinda figured it would turn out to be that when I saw it in a spoiler box, but it still got me, well played.

I don't know if this has been posted yet (14 pages, not gonna read through that much creepy)

But here it is.

 

Dango

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Looking through this thread, I am scared to go to sleep at night.

Can't we have like a hopeful thread or a kitten thread to cancel this out?
 

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PS: Is there any truth to the Fallout 2 story?
Don't know if anyone has answered this yet, but there is a dungeon called "Toxic Caves." There is also an item called "heart pills." That's pretty much all the truth to it.

I'm sure that story was born from the Cafe of Broken Dreams special encounter. It's a cafe you can randomly encounter on the map and is modeled after the Maltese Falcon from Fallout 1. In it, you can find a couple of characters from Fallout 1 as well as unused PC models. Supposedly, if you have other characters made, they will also appear in the cafe. I can't confirm this, though.

The story is obviously false, though. I'm no engineering expert, but I'm pretty sure it'd be impossible for Fallout 2 to generate a character based on the one you most recently played in Fallout 1. I shouldn't have to say that it's especially impossible if Fallout 1 never existed on that computer. Besides all that, the Fallout games have been played and hacked to death. If this existed, someone would have found it.
 

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RebellionXXI said:
Roaminthecrimesolvingpaladin said:
S.R.S. said:
Go to ED and search creepy pasta.

HOLY F****** S*** DON'T DO THAT!

Eurgh that was terrifying.

EDIT: Apologies, it appears my response was ninja'd
I am now hyperventilating. REALLY hyperventilating. Jesus CHRIST that was scary... I threw my arms in front of my face, I can feel tingling in my fingertips, and made a little squeaking noise.

Does not help that it's 4 AM and I'm alone in my office.
I just yelled "fuck!" in a sorta hushed voice, threw off my headset, and walked into the living room for a second before coming back and scrolling down without looking at the screen.
 

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skystryke said:
Tons of stories
What luck, all of these appeal to my various secret fetishes!

J/K, of course. But think about it: Somewhere, there is someone who faps to all of these stories. When you consider the number of people who have a fetish for some horrifying detail in at least one of these stories, it's a moderate percentage of humanity. As you sit terrified late at night, think about the people you walk past on the street, the people you speak to every day. For some reason, they're not scared.

Sweet dreams.
 

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Dango said:
Ok, I'm not going there because I prefer to be scared and not disgusted but you may suffer mod wrath if you don't remove that, I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure putting up sites like those is against the rules.

And another story.

Ghost stories? Nah, we don?t have anything like that around here. We DO have the story of Jacob, but that?s about as close as you?ll get.

?You really want to know?? Well, I?m not supposed to tell you, but all right, just no interrupting. I don?t have the patience for it.

How to describe Jacob Emory? well, I guess you could say he was the kind of guy you could never take notice of. This isn?t to say he was a bad kid, in any sense- many people in this town thought he was the most reliable person for an odd job in the state- but he never really excelled in anything. He was the living proof behind the statement, ?jack of all trades, ace of none.? Most of this was due to his own lack of will. He dabbled in damn near everything this town could offer him, automobiles, radio operation, store management, what have you, but he never stuck with anything. His friends and workers went after him about it a number of times, but everybody got the same unsatisfying response: ?It just wasn?t enough.? Needless to say, any friends he kept were either very patient or never spoke of the matter altogether.

It was probably inevitable, then, that Jacob would leave to go abroad. I don?t remember where he went, but I think Gertrude down the street knew before she passed on- you?ll have to scout someone else if you ever get curious. In any case, no one even tried to stop him. Everybody thought that a little travel would stamp the ambition out of him, or else feed it until it was no longer an issue. Hell, we even gave him a sending-off party, which I thought was pretty nice of everybody.

So anyway, he was gone for? six, seven years? Can?t remember. You?ll have to check with someone else about that, too. Anyways, he came back, eventually, and he had changed, obviously enough. He was amiable, energetic, all smiles all the time, and we all quickly learned why. He showed us a souvenir he?d brought back- a solid black stick, the length of a pencil but the texture of chalk. We all wondered why on earth such a simple thing would prompt such a spring in his step, until he gave his demonstration. He took a piece of paper, and with this stick- God, there?s got to be a better word for it- with this stick, he? he drew a crude circle.

It dropped, and rested on the border of the paper, like a stone. It didn?t leave the paper, but it acted out on it, sort of like an old movie projector on a screen.

Son, I know how crazy that sounds, and if you feel like playing skeptic, then you can leave an old man to his craziness, but I know what I saw, even if everyone?s been hushing it up, and that stone he drew dropped. Jake even passed around the paper, and as it was being passed, it rolled around as the paper got tilted. None of us had any words for it- Hell, what was there to say?- but he continued drawing demonstration after demonstration for us, stick figures in various pageants and plays doing everything from fighting each other to making perfect ?human? pyramids, and we all thought it was incredible. That was all the go-ahead he needed- he announced that he planned to put on shows to pay for rent and food, where he would draw anything the crowd members wanted. THAT we talked to some length about, and he eventually convinced us that it would be safe, his drawings ethical, the practice lucrative and unique, and the attention would not go anywhere outside of the town?s borders.

Poor Jacob. If I?d not been so swept up in the moment, I might?ve read the signs right then and there, and saved the sorry son of a ***** by snapping the terrible thing in half. But I was younger, we all were, and we saw no problem with encouraging him with what we all saw as an incredible experience to be shared with everyone else. Now, he didn?t have any big radio or television connections, mind you, and the internet wouldn?t come around for another decade, so he did what all people on a shoestring budget do- he advertised his show with fliers. Fliers might not mean anything to you city-folk, but in a small town, they gain a fair glance-over from time to time, and what?s more, Jacob?s managed to stick out by having little figures jump up and down and whatnot to get people?s attention. His first show must?ve gotten nearly sixty or so people, probably a lot more than that.

And his shows were fantastic. Someone would shout out a scene from a play or a comedy sketch, and Jake?s hand would fly over a white wall like a bird. He?d been holding back when he made that stone, that?s for damn sure. His illustrations were all spot-on, and he could make an incredible human figure in minutes. Come to think of it, I don?t remember any of his scenes lasting more than ten minutes to make. They were all really well-done scenes, too- not only could you see a knight charge a castle, Jake would draw the castle?s interior as well, like a wedding cake split down the middle, so you could see the knight scale the walls, fight his way through levels to the dungeon, fight back out with the princess, and make a leaping jump off castle parapets onto his getaway horse all in complete silence. Not realistic, no, but that was part of the appeal- none of us went in there expecting something real. When a scene or a sketch was finished, either the characters would leave off a wall or he?d cover the wall with white paint. This was good, in a way- it gave these shows a time limit, so that when he?d finished with all of the four walls in the room, everyone knew the show was over until the paint dried.

Jake, meanwhile, was changing in a bad way. I?d mentioned that upon his return, he?d been extremely energetic. Well, that energy, that vitality or fervor or whatever you want to call it, it never left him. Not for an instant. Far from it, it seemed to grow in him, and he enjoyed it all too much. His eyes grew wider, he slept gradually less over time, his statements and opinions more radical and frenzied, and though he never was a pushover, he was starting to make people nervous in his company.

A month or two passed, and Jake?s audience grew like a wildfire. Nearly everyone in the town paid to see Jake?s art in action, and he had to rent out larger and larger places for them to sit. He now didn?t stop after one scene was done- he moved directly on to the next, put on the next blank space on the wall, sometimes to the intriguing effect of causing scenes to mingle, which the crowd loved. The subject matter got more wild and immoral, the monsters got more bizarre and creative, the fighters using more impossible weaponry, all for the sake of the crowd?s interests. Jake got steadily more indulgent, which we figured was from the money, and he became a drinker and a womanizer (neither of which got rid of that vitality, by the way.) Some of those women claimed that they?d woken up in the middle of the night to see him scribbling with that stick on a drawing pad, a gigantic grin on his face, and while most of them said that they?d assumed he was drawing them in the nude, there?s rumors that one or two of them got glances at that notepad. Those anonymous few supposedly said that those drawings absolutely weren?t nude pictures, but neither of them, whoever they are, will say what he was drawing. Don?t bother looking for the notepads or fliers, though, they?re all gone now. I?m getting off-track; point is, he was hitting the bottle, and that?s important, because it was that drinking that would eventually ruin everything.

On the night of one of his performances, as he walked in front of his cheering crowd, it was immediately apparent to everybody that he was completely drunk. I was in the front row, and I could smell the bourbon on him from ten feet away. The show started, he went through a bunch of sketches and scenarios the crowd recommended, when at the end someone asked that he draw himself. Everyone cheered the idea, I guessed they?d been wondering what his creations thought of him, and he eventually obliged.

No sooner had Jake finished connecting the final two lines on his coat, than every single character, across the vast, expansive wall, all stopped and looked directly at that illustration. Lovers stopped kissing, clowns stopped laughing, robots stopped fighting pirates, everything stopped and looked at the Jacob-illustration. The crowd died almost instantly- I remember Jake?s face at that moment, pale white, full of terrible comprehension at his mistake, and looking desperately for the cans of white paint he?d forgotten to put out before the show. Everyone else? They were looking at the fake Jacob.

That Jacob reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out a black stick of his own, and as we all watched, drew a door. He pushed on his side and the door swung open, allowing him to walk through onto the floor of the auditorium.

The rest was an absolute hellish pandemonium. People screamed and ran for the exits as Jacob?s characters, both those currently on the wall and those which had previously left before being covered up, ran out of their own exit, throwing pies, shooting lasers, blowing fire and poison and the impossible. I was near enough the exit to escape, and gave only one backwards glance. The scene will haunt me forever.

Jacob Emory was being dragged by his creations, kicking and screaming, through the door his copy had made.

The auditorium burned down, obviously enough, but I have no idea how many characters escaped, what happened to the fake Emory, or how many people died. The fire brought the fire department from the nearest cities up to over a hundred miles away- they in turn brought the police force, which brought the government, which hushed up everything. They took the fliers and any art Jake had made, and swore everyone to secrecy or else life detainment. The fire was blamed on a cigarette in the garbage during a basketball game, and we all eventually went on with our lives. Jacob was made to never have existed.

In retrospect, I realize everything. Jacob hadn?t been creating illustrations. Illustrations don?t move, much less act or attack-they?re just images people see, shadows made to look like real things. Jacob had been making life- actual thinking things in some alternate dimension, using a power that was never meant to fall to mortal hands. He got drunk on his power. His punishment was probably well-deserved.

Incidentally, the government screwed up on two different accounts. They did a damn good job silencing everyone, but proof remains. The ruins are still there, you know. The auditorium?s ruins. I hear they?re going to start reconstruction soon, which will wipe out any remaining evidence someone can definitely see, but I went back there once, several years after the fire- just once. Amidst the rubble, covered in ash, I saw something squirming. I looked closer. It was Jacob Emory?s hand on the wall. Exactly like it had been three years ago, (sweaty but calloused, I remember,) but it was constantly flailing, as if the body it was supposed to be attached to was still writhing in flames.

That was mistake number one. Number two was those creations.

Like I said, I don?t know how many escaped, nor how many the government agents found and caught, but I will say only this- Those tall grass meadows on the outskirts of town? Don?t go into them. Ever. You were asking about those white figures you?ve seen at night, right?

This town doesn?t have ghost stories.
 

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skystryke said:
Dango said:
Ok, I'm not going there because I prefer to be scared and not disgusted but you may suffer mod wrath if you don't remove that, I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure putting up sites like those is against the rules.
In that case, it's gone.
 

Canid117

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There is some decent stuff here

http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth/
 

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Dango said:
Looking through this thread, I am scared to go to sleep at night.

Can't we have like a hopeful thread or a kitten thread to cancel this out?
There is no hope here, forever you stay in the scary thread with me and the others. Just one nightmare after another. Easy sleep will never come, you have condemed youself to your own hell, and for what, a cheap thrill? Well then theres more to come.


With Love and Fear-Mcupobob
 

FortheLegion

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I hate these threads but i cant resist looking at them. I hate the feeling of fear and yet why do i look at these threads???
 

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lwm3398 said:
Well, this is definitely not my thread. That first red picture was enough to fucking stop my heart, so... Seeya!
Really? That wasn't scary to me... and I'm easy to scare...

I want to post something but I'm too much of a wuss to even look at it.

Mcupobob said:
Dango said:
Looking through this thread, I am scared to go to sleep at night.

Can't we have like a hopeful thread or a kitten thread to cancel this out?
There is no hope here, forever you stay in the scary thread with me and the others. Just one nightmare after another. Easy sleep will never come, you have condemed youself to your own hell, and for what, a cheap thrill? Well then theres more to come.


With Love and Fear-Mcupobob
OH GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't we have a cute thread? In fact, I'm making one right now.
 

Proverbial Jon

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God damn... I really should stop reading these threads. When will I learn? Took me long enough to get over Marble Hornets and that was the Escapist's fault. Curse you lot!

However I do have a story of my own. Well, less of a story but more of a description of something I saw once that creeped me the hell out. I'd be appreciative if anyone who lives in the UK could possibly confirm it...

I'm pretty certain this was real, but the memory is a funny thing and now it feels more like a dream. But in my final years of primary school (which would have made me about 9/10 years old) we were shown a video about the dangers of playing on farms.

It featured a group of kids who had decided to play hide and seek on a farm. They obviously chose some really bad places to hide. But they were followed by a ghost of a man known as Joshua Walker (Yes I remember the name VERY clearly!) He would sort of rush up to them in a blurry first person camera style.

One kid hid inside a grain silo and it showed what would happen if the silo were to fill with grain and we are shown this kid being buried eventually. I think it was a kind of dream sequence and didn't really happen within the "story". I can't really remember any of the other "deaths" although I'm sure someone was cruched by something. Nor can I remember particularly what Joshua Walker did, he was more of a passive ghost, sort of a guide I guess.

The point is, that stuff freaked me out no end. I mean, how can they show that to kids so young, at school! Then again it certainly did the trick, I'm terrified of farms now!

I can't find any reference to it on the internet anywhere and I'm sure I didn't imagine it because I'm sure one of my school friends remembered it when I mentioned it ages ago. Did anyone else get subjected to this horror? I'd really like to know if it was real or just me going mad!
 

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Marmooset said:
Mcupobob said:
Post up scary stories/pics/ or videos or make one.
OK - mine pale in comparison to most of the items on this thread, but they are homegrown (mine), and one is very real:
When I was young, there was a large sugar maple outside my window, approximately two houses and one street away. Directly behind it stood a streetlight positioned at just the proper angle to shine right through my window to the head of my bed. The effect of this was to cast the tree in a sharp relief, so that on even the most moonless nights, its outline was distiinctly defined.

This was unfortunate, the uppermost branches of the tree came together to form what in my mind appeared to be the profile of a great demonic head, the glow of the lamp's bulb uncannily piercing through where the eye should be.

It more or less retained its shape on all but the most blustery of nights - in fact, a light breeze would make it laugh, gnash its teeth, or mutter soundlessly to itself. And, invariably, it stared directly at me, the upturned gap in the branches where its mouth should be smiling in a quiet promise.
It would get me. Maybe not this night, or the next, or even this year. But it had the patience of the tree it inhabited, and could wait.

Moving my bed never occurred to me - in fact, I vaguely recall thinking that if I wasn't where I could stare back at it, it could come closer without my knowing. I'd toyed with the idea of busting the streetlight, but I was too young to dare that kind of vandalism. And again, it would leave me merely unable to see my nemesis.

In any event, these were actions that seemed silly and unimportant during the day, and only mattered when I was unable to pursue them, as I was on my watch. My only respite was winter, when the face grew skeletal, then faded into dry sticks. But spring would return, and every leaf would grow back ? just so. The face was back to stare, laugh, and promise.

One year ? think when I was about 10, the city widened the street that ran past my house. The tree was marked, a day-glo slash spray painted across its trunk.

It was to be a casualty.
I was ecstatic. For the next couple of weeks, I was more vigilant than ever at night, and I scoffed openly at the tree in the safety of day. I was less than gracious in victory.

Then it was gone, sliced cleanly less than a foot off the ground. I didn?t even see where the remnants went, being at school at the time. The stump soon followed as the road crews moved in, and it was like it had never been. The streetlight, unfiltered, forced my to finally move my bed, fatigue accomplishing what fear had failed to do.

In the years that followed, changes came to my life ? nothing others haven?t gone through ? but tough changes nonetheless. I gradually began to wonder, as brooding grew and innocence dissipated, if perhaps when the tree was cut down, the demon had not been destroyed with it.


Maybe it had simply been set free.
OK let?s start with a scary personal experience:

I?m about 8, and walking to the movies with my sister and her friends. We?re going down our town?s main road, and ? being the youngest in the group by about 3 years, not to mention a little jerk ? I?m running out ahead of the rest of the group by a good 20 yards.

Suddenly, a boxy blue sedan makes a screeching left turn into the intersection just ahead of me, and comes to a halt. The driver opens the door. He is a large, fleshy, mustached man in his late 30?s ? mid 40?s (at my age, everyone looks old). He glares at me, and says, ?Get in.?

That?s it. No lure, no offer of candy, no niceties at all. So it doesn?t really click. The closest thing I can recall thinking is ?This guy?s bossy, he?s grumpy, he looks mean. He must be a friend of my dad?s. Maybe I?m in trouble for being out here.?

Somebody yells ?NO!!!?

Then, a pair of arms wrap around me from behind. Jenny Fiorello(not her real name), my sister?s best friend (not to mention my number one crush in the 5 or so years following this episode), has grabbed me from behind. It is at this point in time I realize that I had actually taken 4 or 5 steps forward, and was practically in reach of the driver. He just needs to step out.

He sizes both of us up for too long a time. Then, looking at the rest of the group of kids coming up behind us, he slams his door, and peels off.

We go home and tell the folks. Actually, as it was in the days before Hardcopy and Fox-Style news, I think we went to the movie first, and then told my parents. They showed mild interest, but didn?t pursue it further. Being little kids, we pretty much forgot about it as well.

But as I grew up, the episode haunted me with two possibilities:
If I had gotten in, where would I be now? Would I be now?
And, since I didn?t report it, who was the next child to get in?
And how many more were there that got in afterward?

Now, it may be my brain trying to fit unlike puzzle pieces together, but it doesn?t help that my recollection of the man very much resembles someone I?ve seen since - both in newspapers and in books?
Half way through the first story a grown man (who I had completely forgotten was in the next room) woke up with a loud breathing sound. It was so damn freaky!